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Watkins used a specially constructed camera to expose 18 x 22 inch glass plates. He created over 1200 mammoth plate photographs during his career. Watkins photographs of Yosemite were very influentual in creation of the park.

Watkins Pacific Railroad

Watkins was widely recognized for his photographs during this time, receiving a medal from the Paris International Exposition in 1867.
This group of photographs are known as Watkins Old Series and are some of the earliest photographs of California and Oregon.

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After the loss of his earlier negatives to a creditor during a financial crisis, Carleton Watkins started photographing anew in the mid-1870s.
Watkins' "New Series" stereographs begin with series number 3001.

Notes: CMP notes: Pt. 2 of 2-part panorama. From accompany pamphlet: No. 3. Looking down Golden Feather Canal, showing sub-flume along East and West banks of river. This Sub-flume carries the seepage and portion of ...

Notes: CMP notes: Note small crew of 4 men in lower center of picture; man third from left is Frank McLaughlin, General Manager. Eight other men--workers--visible as well, including one very blurred figure on flutter ...

Notes: CMP notes: Can make out group of 6 well-dressed observers along upper middle, slightly to right. From accompanying pamphlet: No. 8. Looking across Dam during construction from South-east bank of river.

Notes: CMP notes: Workers housing (shacks? cabins?) visible in background in this print, also. From accompanying pamphlet: No. 14. View from the South across Head-dam (shutters not in place), river shown in Flume and ...

Notes: CMP notes: Verso of print: Peterson stamp, Private Library of H.C. Peterson (encircled).; in pencil by Peterson, l.r., City of Helena, N.P.R.R. and u.l., City of Helena, Montana, as it used to be. It/is now so ...

Notes: CMP notes: NSLA is Nevada State Library and Archives. Probably hung in State Capitol for years and was transerred to the archives soon after its creation in 1965. Date determined by â€œthe landscaping of ...

Notes: CMP notes: Two men--well-dressed--barely visible, standing on edge of sub-flume, off right-of-center. They are looking at large flume carrying river. From accompanying pamphlet: No. 15. View from the North ac ...

Notes: Note from Len Walle: "When I aquired this view at an NSA Annual Trade Show, I showed it to Peter Palmquist to see if he knew who the photographer was, thinking it might have been taken by Peter Britt. Peter tol ...

Notes: CMP notes: From accompany pamphlet: No. 1. Showing Canal and portion of Wall along same. The Head-dam is now built between the two rock buttresses forming the banks of the river directly in line with the comm ...

Notes: CMP notes: Note man in long coat and hat at bottom center of pictureâ€“â€“almost a portrait of this man. We see him again in no. 19. From accompanying pamphlet: No. 18. In bed of River, looking dow ...